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B-196595(THK) 1 (1979-12-07)

handle is hein.gao/gaobactyy0001 and id is 1 raw text is: L. -W Cs C .4.- ~,~. 47' '-.~~ A i'.,. A; Ili17)( K00 -7 /Z2Y~1 qCPA rf IN RIl.Y RrCU llTc .196595 (THK) OFF icc OF GENERMi. COUNSEL DEC - 7 1IY Mrs. Georgia McGuire 67 Burgess (len Sumter, Socth Carolina Dear Mrs. 1cGulie: . r41 4h ytI 29150 - - .4,* By letter received in this Office on October 29, 1979, you requested information on your entitlement to reimbursement for lost job opportunities and chances for advancement you would have receivd had you not been subjected to an unjustified or unwarranted personnel action resultIng In your involuntary selparation from an Air Force position as a Clork-Stenographer, GS-3. Evidently your involuntary separation and later reemployment at the GS-2 level were the result of an unjustified or unwarranted persontic action arising becnuse your employing office had considered you had not completer your probationary period even though, as deter- mined some years later, you had actually done so. In this connection the Offlea of Personnel Managerment advised Scuhtor Ernest F. Hollings or; July 19, 1979, that apparently your agency had determined that you had undergone an unwarranted or unjustified personnel action and that you had been reimbursed for step increases lost, as well as any other actual. money to which you were entitled but had not received, because of such personnel action. The letter also said that under Federal Personnl lMnnunl, chapter 550, subehaptor 8-5, additional reimburse- ment for embarrassment, icst opportunities for advancement, etc., is not specifically authoriZcd. Concerning lost opportunities for advancement, we have held that normally emiployees have no vasted right to promotions at any particular time, except as provided by agency renulation or a collective bargain- ing agreement with an employees' union. See 54 Comp. Gen. 403, 406 (1974), copy, enclosed. You do not Indicate thati any Air Force regula- tion or collcetive har [tai 11 a;:rCemenIt gave yon iniy utitttlement to a grade promotion. With resIpect Lo your requcat that we uInvstigite how many times you were not conaidered for promotion because of any untruthful stateintutnS in your records, as well as your priority to a clerk-Stenographer position, we must advise you that such matters are not pcrtinent to any monetary culain we might award as a result of an tip '9 I, i.,<y .~ UrTm STATES GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE WASHINGTON, D.C. 20548 .5.

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